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Literary Criticism Canadian

Theology and the Victorian Novel

by (author) J. Russell Perkin

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2009
Category
Canadian
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773536067
    Publish Date
    Nov 2009
    List Price
    $125.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773576995
    Publish Date
    Nov 2009
    List Price
    $95.00

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Beginning with a wide-ranging introduction that explains why a theological reading of Victorian fiction is both rewarding and timely, Perkin also addresses religion's return to prominence in the twenty-first century, confounding earlier predictions of its imminent demise. Chapters on William Thackeray, Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte Yonge, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy are followed by a concluding discussion of Mary Ward and Walter Pater that relates Pater's Marius the Epicurean to postmodern theology and shows how it remains a religious classic for our own time.

About the author

J. Russell Perkin is professor of English, Saint Mary's University, and the author of A Reception-History of George Eliot's Fiction.

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